Fan Fic / Armored Core: from the Ashes

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A cooperative fanfiction, set almost immediately after the events of Armored Core: For Answer. It's written by multiple fanfiction authors (Zero Reaper, Krimzon-8, xXThe perfect SoldierXx, n147258, Sakai the Demon and Precursor), each of whom has multiple characters featured.

There are many main characters, but the two major heroes are Ghost and Kruger. Immediately afterwards is Felix, with Daven, Razer and Deimos being there as well. These core characters are also the first character of their respective writer: Zero Reaper with Ghost, Krimzon-8 with Kruger, xXThe perfect SoldierXx with Felix, n147258 with Daven, Sakai the Demon with Deimos, and Precursor with Razer.

The story begins with Ghost and Holly, two members of a reformed ORCA, and their recruitment of Kruger, an instrumental member for their rise. With these three, ORCA begins to rise to the top, taking on the League who lorded over the rest of the world and trying to do their best for Earth. However, as Ghost becomes more and more ruthless and Kruger begins to question his actions, the members of ORCA are slowly turned against each other...

The main writing is done on this forum: Armored Core Post-FA Era The authors ask that you please do not post there unless you are willing to devote a great deal of time to it, as the plot is at its height.

Armored Core: from the Ashes provides examples of:

Ace Custom: Several, including Requiem, Seraphim and Death Omega, with Requiem being by far the most powerful example.

Actually, because of the fact that they're all customised with different parts and weapons, all the NEXTs can be considered this, with one or two exceptions (such as the identical AI-based prototypes used by Omer).

Always Someone Better: Averted. Ghost and Kruger are shown to be, by some margin, the most powerful human beings in all of history, who could almost be called gods because of the fact that no-one can touch them on the battlefield. This is something that Ghost does not forget.

Subverted - They're all fighting each other most of the time. Although after further examination, Ghost is the one who basically wiped the Thermidor family off the face of the Earth. Maybe he's just the family's resident internal grim reaper.

Beta Couple: Daven and Wynne had problems, but got over them fairly well. The Beta Couple to these two is Zach and Menno, though Menno is dead. Although that said, nobody in this fic seems to stay dead for long.

Very much so. Miranda Smith (aka Menno Ruh) has been confirmed to be alive. Same with Fiona Jarnefeldt.

BFG: Any weapon on the prototypes, any weapon designed for extreme damage.

Word of God states that this is because he tried so hard to be the ultimate human being, the perfect warrior in every concievable way, that it cost him his sanity - and literally everything else in his entire life.

Ghost; he constantly wears black and dark grey clothing, all of his mechs are painted black and blood-red, he has black hair and (under the influence of his Demon abilities) red eyes - hell, even his name screams this... but he's the hero.

Interestingly inverted with Ghost, who, since he was nineteen, has been possibly the largest single force in the world, having more or less dictated the course of the Lynx War, was pulling the strings behind ORCA, and is well, until recently the commander of the world's second-largest military faction.

Several other pilots also qualify, such as Mariasa Isabella, Stein, and Leon as of this moment.

Gadgeteer Genius: Felix, who personally made his NEXT and a weapon Daven was interested in. It can also be inferred with all characters, as several have to be able to maintain their machines. This is also true of Zach, who could be inferred to have been at least helping upgrade Advent Dawn.

Gatling Good: Daven. His original NEXT featured three out of a possible four. His next mech, Seraphim, featured one that's amazingly powerful.

The Generic Guy: Played mostly straight with Deimos, at least until you touch on the whole fact of his being a Demon.

Glass Cannon: Most light mechs that have very good armaments. The VOB SOLARWIND that Wynne uses.

Mecci has provided a lot of pilots for ORCA during the second 'phase' of writing. These all pilot MP NEX Ts, including Wynne due to not having the AMS for NEXT units. However, these MP NEX Ts are even a bigger playing of this trope straight, in that they're amazingly powerful as well.

Lady and Knight: An odd, gender-flipped version between Ghost and an insane, severely yandere Fiona Jarnefeldt that is also subverted by Ghost's skill.

Noble Demon: Ghost plays this trope as straight as he can, right down to extremely intentionally making himself appear evil (Word of God says that there will be a reason revealed for this later on). And then there's the fact that this trope is even a pun when applied to him.

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